Clarification: I'm doing this on OpenBSD. If there is a portable function
that will work across *NIX flavors that is preferable but if not I guess I
need something BSD specific. Thanks.
Chris Hedemark - Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com
---- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hedemark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: getting memory info from system
> Howdy,
>
> I'm tearing through my O'Reilly books and the CPAN search trying to find a
> module or built-in function call that will let me get statistics back from
> the system regarding memory. I'm trying to find:
>
> 1) real memory bytes total
> 2) real memory bytes used
> 3) real memory bytes free
>
> As a secondary interest I'd like to do the same stats but for the swap
> file(s).
>
> Can anyone here point me in the right direction please?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris Hedemark - Hillsborough, NC
> http://yonderway.com
>
>
